Quotes about plays

If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.

— Jean Baudrillard

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

— Frank Moore Colby

I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.

— Bette Davis

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

— T. S. Eliot

The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited.

— Oscar Hammerstein

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

— Eric Hoffer

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

— Elbert Hubbard

Play needs direction as well as work.

— Elbert Hubbard

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

— Thomas Hughes

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

— Josephine Hull

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

— Samuel Johnson

The last act crowns the play.

— John Ruskin

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

— George Bernard Shaw

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

— George Bernard Shaw

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

— Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

— Oscar Wilde

Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

— Thornton Wilder

A play visibly represents pure existing.

— Thornton Wilder

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

— William Shakespeare